Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-05-07
STATE NEWS.

for at Las Animas.
The Tenderfeet of Greeley will give
their annual supper on the 3lst.
Denver Prohibitionists are making u
vigorous fight for the city offices.
The Centennial Mine at Georgetown
has been sold to st. Louis parties for $780,
600.
A three-year-old daughter of Levi
Cox, of Aspen, was burned to death last
week
A fire in w. A. Wizards grocery
store Pueblo, did damage to the amount of
5000
The Midland hopes to run big ex-
cursion train into Leadville on the Fourth
of July.
A gas and electric light company
with capital of COO has been organized |
at Lamar.
High water in the San Juan river is |
retarding the completion of the big Monte |
yuma tunnel.
DR.. Clarke, the alleged Denver abor-
ZIONIST has been placed under So, 600 bonds |
to appear before the Grand Jury.
The residents of Glenwood are look
ing forward to the erection of smelters as
soon as the railroads are completed.
Five town site declaratory statements
were filed in the Lamar land Office last
week. They all had court house squares.
The Denver Club are to erect hand
some club house to cost 500, 600 on the cor
-
city.
Attorney General Alvin Marsh has
decided to decline the Supreme Court Com
mission ship offered him by Governor
Adams.
The Anti-Royalty bill has been rec
commended for passage by the Committee
of the Whole of the Senate to the joy of the
farmers.
The Jesuit College which was estab-
lished some time ago at Morrison is to be
removed to Colorado Springs and greatly
enlarged.
The Denver Council has passed an
ordinance providing for vote by the peo-
pie on IA proposition to turn Cherry Creek at
a cost of 100000.
1t has been decided by the Denver
Chamber of Commerce to erect an Expo
sition building to cost 81, 600 on block of
ground opposite their present building.
The Leadville Herald-Democrat has
donned a handsome new Dress 1t now has
no superior as newspaper, either typo
graphically or editorially, in the State.
Twenty-Five hundred and forty-six
entries have been made at the Lamar land of
flee since the beginning of the year, covering
$4,000 acres, and the fees exceed 5000.
1t is estimated that the people of Col
Orado pay more than s., 600, 900 annually for
imported oats, corn, fruit and dairy pro-
duce all of which might be produced at
home.
On the 25th 1441 feet of the Hager-
man tunnel had been driven, leaving Gs3
feet of rock yet to pierce. Estimating on
the progress to date this will be finished by
June 49,
Raymond Il Whitconlb, the trans
continental eXcursiOn managers are said
to have already booked 1000 tourists who
will take in the sights of the Centennial
State this year.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail
road has leta contract for the building of |
125 miles miles of road from Fremont, in |
Northwestern Nebraska, in Southwestern
ly direction toward Denver
The Denver Il Rio Grandc railroad |
have just issued 5000 copies of a very at
tractve pamphlet entitled "Rhymes of the |
Rockies The book gives sketches of the |
different points of interest in poetry as well |
as prose, while the cuts are numerous and |
handsome.
Sixty wagons loaded with lumber
and merchandise left Lamar for SPRING
field on Monday morning. They paraded |
the street before departing on their Jour
ney. Each wagon bore placard, s'For
Springfield" etc.
There is surplus of 49,, 900 in the |
treasury of Weld County, and the commits
sioners do not know what to do with it.
They are uncertain whether portion of it
belongs to the new counties of Logan and
Washington, or not.
The east-bound business on the Den
yer & Rio Grande Railway is larger than
has ever been known during the month OF
March. The officials of that road find it al
most impossible to secure sufficient num-
Der OF seepers to satisfy the demand.
Active efforts are now making to re-
pair the wagon road over Cottonwood pass
to Aspen and Glenwood Springs. The road
has been found passable and direct during
the summer months to the points named,
but during the early spring is simply abom-
Unable.
Governor Adams has appointed the
following gentlemen Commissioners of the
Supreme Court, according to the provisions
of a bill passed by the Legislature short
time ago: Attorney General Marsh, ex-Sen-
ator Rising, of Custer County, and Hon.
Thomas Macon, of Fremont County